Embroidery-hoop.



No. 861,471. PATENTED JULY so, 19o?. N. o.. LEONARD.

EMBROIDERY HOOP.

. APPLIUATION FILED APB.27, 1906.

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EMBROIDERY-HOOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed April 27, 1906. Serial No. 314,026.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NoRRrs C. LEONARD, a resident of Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Embroidery-Hoops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in embroidery hoops, the object of the invention being to provide means for adjusting the size or diameter of one of the hoops (preferably the outer hoop) to suit varying conditions, and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section. Figs. 3 and 4 are views ol' details, and Figs. 5, G, 7, and 8 are views illustrating a modification l and 2 represent the overlapping hoop ends, secured by screws 3, the latter located in slots 4 in the hoop end l to permit the ends to be moved relative to each other. Hoop end l is made with a circular opening to receive a countersunk disk 5, the countersunk or central portion of the disk fitting the opening and provided with lugs or prongs 6, which, when bent outward against the inner face of the hoop end l, securely hold the disk in position yet permit free rotary movement thereof. The disk 5 is provided with a spiral or cam slot 7, into which a pin 8 fixed to hoop end 2, projects, and it will bc seen that when disk 5 is turned, the pin 8 will become disposed in different portions of the spiral or cam slot 7, to move the hoop ends relative to each other and thereby adjust the diameter of the hoop to suit conditions.

In the modiiication illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, a disk 9 is located in the opening in hoop end l and held in place by larger ,disks ll and l2 secured to'the outer and inner faces thereof, and overlapping the ma terial of the hoop around the opening therein. The outer disk l1 serves as a finger hold to turn the parts.

The disk 9 ismade with a circular opening at one side of its center, to receive a small disk 13, the latter having a central pin or one facel engaging the outer disk ll., andv provided with an eccentric pin l/l on its opposite face, projecting through disk l2 and into an opening in the hoop end 2, so that by turning the disk ll, the hoop ends can be moved relatively to each other, as will be readily understood.

The several parts may be made integral or separate and secured together, as desired, and a great many other changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention. Hence, I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:-

1. The combination with overlapping hoop ends, and Screws secured to one hoop end and located in slots in the other to slidingly connect the hoop ends, of a countersunk disk located in a circular opening in the outer hoop end, lugs or prongs on the disk engaging the inner face of the outer' hoop end,to secure the disk therein, and a pi-n fixed to the in-ner hoop end and projecting into a spiral or cam slot in the disk.

2. The combination of overlapping hoop ends, one having an opening therein, a revoluble disk provided with a countersunk portion mounted in said opening in one hoop end, the countersunk portion o1' said disk having an eccentric slot, and a pin projecting from the other hoop end and entering said slot.

3. An embroidery hoop having overlapping ends, a. cam

device permanently mounted near one hoop end, and a device projecting from the other hoop end and having permanent connection with said cam device.

4. An embroidery hoop having overlapping ends, means preventing separation of said hoop ends andpermitting one to move upon the other, a cam device permanently lo cated on one hoop end, and a projection on the other hoop end and having. a permanent connection with said cani device.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this speeiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NORRIS C. LEONARD.

Witnesses H. T. CAMPBELL, EDGAR MAGNns's. 

